The Neutral Sky: Why Space May Be the Only Fair Ground for AI in the Developing World
By Futurist Thomas Frey and Futurist Teresa Grobecker The geopolitics of AI infrastructure has left smaller nations with no seat at the table. A constellation of orbital edge computers may be the first genuinely neutral ground they have ever had. Every conversation...
The Token Revolution: How the Global South Becomes the Global Brain
By Futurist Thomas Frey and Futurist Teresa Grobecker For two centuries, the developing world fed the machine with its land, its labor, and its people. The next economy runs on something different — and this time, the feedback loop runs in reverse. Here is a...
The Relevance Gap Manifesto
There was a time when relevance lasted a lifetime. That time is over. For the first time in history, intelligence is no longer scarce. It is abundant. On demand. Continuously improving. Which means everything built on the assumption that intelligence was rare — every...
The Long Game: Legacy, Meaning, and What You Want to Leave Behind
The Unlost Self — Column 5 By Futurist Thomas Frey My grandfather never once talked about his legacy. He was a farmer, then a gas station owner, then a grandfather — in that order, with nothing between the categories but hard work and a few quiet years of transition....